cleaned shapes + first black shapes added
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first tests with color. decided to make the outer ring dust because it was taken to much attention away from the lightning/impact.
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Really like how that bloom orange looks! And also how the shading in and around the grayish smoke makes it feel much more 3D.
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Working for Marvel now eh? 
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i’m calling it done! 
- added small debris, reworked ground impact, raised the brightness of the upper lightning
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Started with the first rough idea for the AOE slime. I thought about putting a magical shield to the bottom to add a nice blue tint and explain why the liquid is doesn’t like to go further. A bit like my “shielded explosion” but this time within cylinder instead of a sphere.
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New version: my idea:
- a slime puddle appears
- out of this puddle raises a slime blob
- the blob explodes and pushes the puddle in nova shape toward the shield
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- refined slime-Nova shapes (added some more holes to take away a bit of the mass)
- also did first shading test
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So hot so hot, simon
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wow ive been following these as you post them in the dcord so its really awesome to see them all compiled together like this! Lovely work dude!
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Gloopy! love it dude.
hey simon love your work and this thread
may i suggest fudging the gradient to account for simultaneous contrast? perhaps by using
- height based shadowing – to add depth for the eye and illusion of self-shadow
- top facing normals / top texture ability to diffuse light – illusion of subsurface for translucency
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Hi, thank you for taking the time to write feedback and even do an overpaint! 
I also thought about a height based shadow but I’m careful to not have it appear too solid/opaque. What I noticed for example: Slime is usually brighter where it is thinner and I imagine those areas, which are in shadow in your painting, stay a bit brighter (see image), but I’ll play around with that!
top facing normals / top texture ability to diffuse light – illusion of subsurface for translucency
I’m not sure if I understand the second point.
Thanks for your feedback!
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My interpretation was wrong, i had made contextual illusions for liquid soap on the scale of a bath tub getting hit by an anvil; The suggestions are inapplicable relative to gelatinous material.
pretty much ignore anything I suggested.
this Slime has characteristics of foam, trapped air bubbles become an overwhelming light scatter property contextual to
- White background – no longer occluded as it thins out.
- relative foaming* - significantly scatters light as the bubbles can’t quickly escape while material thins
- (wont even go into the reflectance complexity as it has a lot to do with our eye/perceptions inability to perceive linear brightness)
(*this is similar to stretching plastic and how it brightens as the molecular cohesion turns a smooth surface into a coarse skin)
It’s a much more sophisticated material to reproduce in various contexts, sizes, lighting and background from a technical light logic/PBR standpoint; the density/stretching of trapped micro-bubbles and air pockets dramatically overtakes translucency.
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@Torbach thanks for the additional feedback! <3
Inmediate update: did a small blender rendering to check where we see diffuse, translucency and spec color.
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